Improved baking-fan



ALLEN HEMINWY AND WILLIAM A; DAGGETT, on `LANAIs l TOWNSHIP, NnW'JnRsnY,

`AssIGlsioles To 4ALLEN HEMINWAY AND GALEB H. BENNETT, 0F saME'PLAGE.

Letters .Patent No. 102,938, (lated AMag] 10, 1870.;-

IMPRovED :BAkING-PAN.

The 'Scheduler-defied to in these Letters Patent mking part ot the same.

To all whom it may concern Be it4 known that we,"ALLEN HEMINWAY and WILLIAM A.- DAGGETT, of Lanas, in the `county of Cumberland and `State o f New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsiu'Baking-Pans :and we do hereby declare that the following is a full,

clear, a.nd exact description' thereof, Vreference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters of reference marked thereon, wliiclrform a partfrof this specification. i

ffThe 'naturcwof oni' inventionfconsists in the construction of baking-pans, so as to -be perfectly se1t`- sealing,air-excluding, and steam and gas-retaining.

' In order to enable others skilled in the art to which our invention appertains to make and use the same,

y we willnow proceed to describe its construction and op- -eration, reterringto the annexed drawings, in which- Figure `1 is a perspective yew; Figure 2 is a `transverse vertical section;

' Figure is a side view. f thecatch; and

:Figure 4 isa section ofthe hinge. vA. Areprescnt "twopans of about equal size and `shape, hinged on one side with adjustable hinges a a,

and provided ywith a hasp or latch',b, on the other` side.

4 VIn the. top of4 the upperfpan A' is a vent or orilice,

. d, with-a pivoted lid or cD\'er,\B.-

,lhe objectjof the self-sealing is to exclude the air from the panwhile bread is beingsbaked,l which by the,V raising of the dough in the is accomplished pan.

is to allow the air to be expelled from the pan by the heat and steam during the rst portion of the baking process. f This vent is' then closed, to Aretain the nugether on one side, and hasped-.or late-hed ou the other, and the upper pan provided with a vent. in its top, all substantially as and for the purposes 'herein set forth. n

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own, we aix our signatures in presenceof two vwit'- nesses. f

ALLEN HEMINWAY.

WILLIAM A. DAGGETT.

The object ofthe vent in the top of the upper pan `in any other pan, and be nearly 

